Claude Opus 4.1 is way above the others in terms of quality of the answers (especially for programming)

That might be your experience. I also prefer Claude for my tasks, but for general usage they are very close.

Leaderboards like LLM arena show this and effectively rank all latest models within 20-30 points, which is almost a coin flip. 30 point difference in Elo rating is ~55%/45%, so out of 11 answers, you might prefer 6 from best model, and 5 from worst.

	▲	jasonjmcghee 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's crazy how different my personal experience is compared to LLM Arena. Very curious what the use cases people are doing that aren't overlapping with mine.

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croes 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I play code ping pong between multiple AIs to get some decent code. They all fail at some point